Office of Scholarly Communication

Recent Posts

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  Podcasts and Publishing: Recentering Historical Research on the Voices of the Past

  
  September 7, 2021
  More and more scholars are discovering the possibilities of podcasting. My recent work on the documentary podcast project Stories from the Epicenter has helped me understand some of the benefits, and

• COVID Tracking Project archives donated to UC

  
  August 5, 2021
  In March 2020 the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic took on the responsibility of posting COVID-19 cases, testing, hospitalization, and death counts in the United States. The effort, led by The

• PNAS and the University of California announce open access publishing agreement

  
  August 3, 2021
  The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the University of California (UC) today announced a two-year transformative agreement that makes it easier and more affordable for corresponding authors at

• Practical Idealism: UC’s Approach to Open Access

  
  July 6, 2021
  MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship at the University of California, Davis, provides the following commentary on UC’s recent transformative agreements with

• May 2021 update on open access and academic journal contracts: a presentation to the UC Board of Regents’ Academic and Student Affairs Committee

  
  May 14, 2021
  On May 12, 2021, Provost and Executive Vice President Michael T. Brown, University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director